Mr. Obama, in order to fulfill his promises, is frantically trying to push a new national health care proposal through the Congress and Senate. How can these people vote for an issue when they have a private retirement and health care program, and they have nothing to lose or gain? Also, Mr. Obama is on the same boat with them. The American people should be voting on this national health care proposal.

Social Security was established for the retired people to survive and have medical coverage. Try to survive on less than $10,000 a year.

Unfortunately, Social Security has been used for other giveaway programs to support people who have never worked or contributed to the fund. Now Mr. Obama wants to pay for national health care using the Social Security and Medicare funds to give people health insurance coverage who never worked and never intended to work all their lives, at the expense of the retired people.

Social Security and Medicare would have been solvent for ages if the government had kept its sticky fingers away. Now, Mr. Obama is desperately trying to find money to run the country and cover up the stimulus spending, which our great-great-great-grandchildren will be paying for.

With the unemployment rate climbing to two-digit figures, the government cannot collect enough taxes to survive. If they abolish Medicare, there would be large revenues for the government.

He has already taken away the cost of living from our Social Security benefits for two years and is giving us a one-time payment of $250. Bush gave us $300, but did not take anything away. At the expense of retired people they are trying to set up national health care coverage. Maybe they can get away with this in Russia, Cuba, China and other communist countries, but not in the good old U.S.A. Write your congressmen and senators. Enough is enough.